Running kubectl commands Helm post install

Question

I would like to run some kubectl commands to verify the cluster post install of Helm charts. I could not find any documentation around this. In Helm, theres the con

Answer 1

You can define a job that is executed at a certain point in the lifecycle during helm install. The list of available hooks also contains a post-install hook you are probably looking for. An example can be found in the official documentation.

You basically provide a Kubernetes Job, add necessary helm labels and then also an annotation like this:

  annotations:
    "helm.sh/hook": post-install

In case you are looking for something running on the client side, maybe you can use or create a Helm plugin. There is a list in the official documentation: Helm Plugins. You can find some more by filtering GitHub repositories for the topic helm-plugin.

There are ideas for future development to support Lua for scripting plugins. But the current format will still be supported.